Pooja Dang is an Executive and Career Coach specializing in helping her clients to design and build a career they love with the help of customized coaching sessions and straight up, no nonsense advice. Are YOU ready to reinvent yourself? Let’s get started!

Author: Pooja Dang

Ever been in the presence of mastery? Simply outstanding talent?
How did it make you feel?
I have and it made me feel like going for more…wanting more…for myself…my life…and the people I love.
And then I thought, what would it be like to set a new standard for myself? How would I show up in the world if my goal…my passion…my purpose was to be outstanding or, as I prefer to say,
‘Fucking awesome’?
Good enough…great…or even excellent… is
Boring
OUTSTANDING wakes me up.
OUTSTANDING makes me...

2015 has just arrived and after the celebrations have died down, we’re left with the resolutions we’ve made. What are yours?
Are you going to rehash the old ones that you never fulfilled? Are you going to commit to doing something you should have done long ago?
I hope not because that’s the exact recipe for repeating past failures. Don’t worry, many people don’t realize they’ve already failed on January 1st. Thankfully, there’s a way out of the...

Many of my clients come to me to figure out the answer to this very question. They have lives that are pretty good but they still feel like something is missing. It’s just not awesome. They want more. And they want to know what they can do about it.
The first thing we do is figure out and identify what you really want. What would your ideal life look like? Your work life? Your personal life?...

Ever have one of those days where you’re just not motivated? You can’t really focus. You don’t want to do anything. You’re in a funk?
So what do you do? You take the day off, right?
But what if something has to get done. You have to be at work and the proposal is due today. Or you have people coming over and you have to prepare your special meal. Or like me, you have...

Every now and then, you hear a story that gets you thinking.
What if instead of living in a state of scarcity, we could live in a state of abundance?
My mother-in-law (okay I’m not married but for all practical purposes, she’s my mom-in-law), told me a story about her water aerobics class. Turns out that her class has become pretty popular and the space in the pool fills up quickly. This leads to people getting very territorial about their...

Want to lead an unremarkably average life?
Do what everyone else expects you to do. Don’t stand out. Don’t break any rules. Surround yourself with people that think just like you. Accept what people tell you at face value. Get a regular job. Stay close to home. Don’t take any risks. Accept what you’ve been ‘given’.
How does this make you FEEL?
Uninspired? Okay? Normal? or like CRAP?
When you think about it, many of us tend...

Have a goal you’re working towards? Did you follow the common advice to set a SMART goal (Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Realistic and Timely)?
Well tell me something. How does the thought of achieving it make you feel?
Pretty good? … Great?…. or Freakin’ amazing?
Think of all the people you admire – olympic athletes, entrepreneurs, CEO’s…people at the top of their game. Do you think they got where they are due to setting goals that got them “um…pretty good” results? ...

Here’s a post from one of my favorite authors, Seth Godin.
We know what you want to accomplish. We know how you’d like everything to turn out.
The real question is, “what are you willing to push through the dip for?” What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about?
Because that’s what’s going to actually get done....

This is the question that I most often ask people when I meet them for the first time.
So many of us get so caught up in our daily lives and our to-do’s that we never really take the time to step back and really think about what we would do if we were sure to succeed.
Why do I love to ask it? Because your answer tells me so much more about you than “What do you do for a...